Theresa May wants to use grammar schools to create a meritocratic, ‘socially mobile’ society at a cost of £50 million. But that raises the question: merit in what, precisely?
In his Republic, Plato envisaged Socrates wondering how society was created, with a view to determining how best to establish a just one.
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